Table-support.



Patentd Nov. 27, I900.

F. A. MILLIKAN.

TABLE SUPPORT.

(Application filed May 4, 1900.)

(No ll odel.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,799, dated November 27, 190( Application filed May 4, 1900. Serial No. 15,512. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK AUSTIN MILLI- KAN, of Warren, in the county of Trumbull and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Table-S upports and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a support for tables for exhibition purposes.

The primary object is to provide a simple and inexpensive table-support whereby one table may be superimposed above and independently of another, allowing the latter to be removed without disturbing the superim= posed table.

The invention will be hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are views in perspective showing the use and application of my improved support. Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of a portion of one frame and the connecting side bar. Fig. dis a plan view of a part of one of the crosspieces.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the support in its entirety, the same being composed of two frames 1 and 2. Each of these frames consists of two end uprights 3 and a cross-piece l, the latter being made of two telescopicsections, one having a tongue 5, capable of sliding in a central slot between two side arms 6 of the other section, said arms being strengthened by crossplates 7. By this arrangement each frame may be contracted or extended to accommodate tables of different widths. In the upper surface of each cross-piece are two grooves 4 to accommodate tablecasters. The uprights 3 of the two frames are adj ustably connected by side bars 8, inserted through mortises in the uprights. These two frames may be relatively adjusted for tables of different lengths.

In practice the cross-pieces 4E of the two frames may be extended across the top of a table, and the frames can be so adjusted in relation to each other by being moved laterally that the casters of the legs of a second table mounted above the other will rest in the grooves of the cross-pieces of the frames. The uprights are of such length that the crosspieces will not contact with the top of the lower table. In this way one table may be superimposed above another, as for exhibition purposes in a sales-room, without damaging or injuring the bottom table, and the latter may be drawn out in whole or in parts without disturbing the table mounted on the support.

I claim as my invention 1. A device constructed to permit of its being extended over a table to support a second or superposed table above the first, comprising extensible cross-pieces upon which the superposed table is designed to rest, and supports for such cross-pieces.

2. A device constructed to permit of its being extended over a table to support a second or superposed table above the first, composed of a plurality of frames having cross-pieces upon which the superposed table is designed to rest, and means connecting said frames for adjusting them relatively to each other, as set forth.

3. A device constructed to permit of its being extended over a table to support a second or superposed table above the first, composed of two frames having extensible cross-pieces upon which the superposed table is designed to rest, and means for adjusting said frames relatively to each other, as set forth.

4.. A device constructed to permit of its being extended over a table to support a second or superposed table above the first, composed of two frames having cross-pieces upon which the superposed table is designed to rest, uprights supporting said cross-pieces at their ends, and side bars adj ustably connecting the uprights of the frames, as set forth.

5. A device constructed to permit of its being extended over a table to support a second or superposed table above the first, composed of two frames adapted to hold the superposed table thereon,means for adjusting each frame longitudinally, and means for relatively adjusting the frames laterally, as set forth.

6. A device of the character specified, for

supporting tables, comprising cross-pieccs In testimony whereof I have signed this having grooves in their upper surfaces, and specification in the presence of two subscrib- 1o supports for such cross-pieces, as set forth. ing Witnesses.

7. A table-support composed of frames hav- 7 5 ing cross-pieces formed with grooves in their FRANK AD STIN MILLIKAN' upper surfaces, supports for said cross-pieces, Witnesses: and means for relatively adjusting said. W. H. SMILEY,

frames, as set forth. JEAN KILPATRIC. 

